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Drakengard 3’s story deals with a lot of heavy and dark themes, and Dito’s backstory is no exception. It’s a tale of sexual slavery, brainwashing and emotional abuse, most of which is outlined more blatantly in his side novella, This Ugly World. I plan on only referring to it in vague language at the most (with an appropriate content warning in the header, of course) but if you’d still like to avoid discussion of it or avoid interacting with Dito completely, please feel free to let me know. No hard feelings!
CW FOR MILD NECROPHILIA: Because… yeah. A major cutscene towards the end of Branch D reveals that Five has been reanimated after being killed by Zero. However, her resurrection doesn’t go as planned and she comes back as a mindless zombie, turning all of her soldiers and followers into zombies in the process. Dito immediately becomes enamored with Five’s new look, turning on Zero instantly, which contributes to his death-by-dove-transformation. His sadism and cruelty are pretty well-established throughout the game, and it seems very much in character for Dito to betray Zero once he’s found something that better satisfies his insatiable bloodlust. However, it’s my opinion that this personality trait of falling in love with zombie!Five comes out of nowhere, and seems to be just a tasteless and lazily-constructed reason for Dito to betray Zero as well as a last-ditch effort to make him even more reprehensible than he already is. Plus the whole “falling in love with your rapist” trope is pretty disgusting on its own, so… yeah. I won’t be bringing this up ICly at all.
